This article looks at the recently increase in teen pregnancy and raises the question: is abstinence stunting the rapid decline that was present? The article has the abstinence only side blaming today’s culture and a less fear of AIDS while the sex education side blames abstinence education and their lack of enlightening teenagers on contraception.
This article provides interesting information to why rates would increase recently despite a consistent decline since the 90s and explains that federal funding for sex education can only be used for abstinence-only platforms. So a whole generation of kids is beginning their sexual experience without proper education on contraception along with a progression in societal views on sex.
Marcotte sets out to show that Texas has practiced its religious-centered sex education in public schools while violating the US Constitution. She digresses to say that since Texans teach abstinence-only and require parental permission for contraception they want to punish/scare anyone who has sex before marriage with the possibility of pregnancy.
This piece sheds great light on the personal violation these practices permit. It will definitely be used to drive home the disservice it is to our youth. The parental permission for contraception is a very conservative abstinence education move that really puts into question where the government is even involved in the bed.
Scholarly
Basch, C. E. (2011). Teen Pregnancy and the Achievement Gap Among Urban Minority Youth. Journal Of School Health, 81(10), 614-618.
This study offers a variety of information on urban teenagers pregnancy and reasons why. The study concludes that comprehensive sex education would produce less pregnancy and stds. The article will help with its straight forward deductions in multiple reports:
“the studies provide compelling evidence that comprehensive sex education (ie, including education about both abstinence and contraception) resulted in delayed initiation of and frequency of sex, reduced number of partners and increased contraception use”
“concluded that more intensive, multicomponent youth development programs serving high-risk populations showed the most promising results.”
Azar, B. (2012). Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: Highlights from a Citywide Effort. American Journal Of Public Health, 102(10), 1837-1841. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.300935
This article is a perfect example of a city (Milwaukee) that decided to fully embrace the fact that its birth rates can be drastically lowered if they teach their teenagers about contraception and explain to them the realities of adolescent parenthood. It also focuses on how this initiative is based on evidence-based prevention efforts that will succeed taking out the religious context and justifying with stats.
This article expresses that Milwaukee can already be used as a template for how other cities countrywide can decrease their teen pregnancy rates.
This report has studies that promote both sides of the abstinence debate and makes the connection that both education programs promote good-decision making, ramifications, and explain peer pressure but they differ in what your told not to do or educated on what the decision would entail. It also includes research on a new abstinence based program that differs from ‘traditional’ programs by “It did honestly answer questions about contraception, and it did not say ‘delay until marriage.’” Perhaps because of that difference, it “did not reduce condom use.”.
Annotated Bibliography
Analysis
Tamar, L. (2010, January 26). After long decline, teenage pregnancy rate rises. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27teen.html
This article looks at the recently increase in teen pregnancy and raises the question: is abstinence stunting the rapid decline that was present? The article has the abstinence only side blaming today’s culture and a less fear of AIDS while the sex education side blames abstinence education and their lack of enlightening teenagers on contraception.
This article provides interesting information to why rates would increase recently despite a consistent decline since the 90s and explains that federal funding for sex education can only be used for abstinence-only platforms. So a whole generation of kids is beginning their sexual experience without proper education on contraception along with a progression in societal views on sex.
Opinion
Marcotte, A. (2012, June 05). Abstinence-only’s success depends on your priorities. Retrieved from http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/06/05/if_you_believe_sex_is_sinful_then_policies_that_increase_teen_pregnancy_and_std_rates_are_a_success_.html
Marcotte sets out to show that Texas has practiced its religious-centered sex education in public schools while violating the US Constitution. She digresses to say that since Texans teach abstinence-only and require parental permission for contraception they want to punish/scare anyone who has sex before marriage with the possibility of pregnancy.
This piece sheds great light on the personal violation these practices permit. It will definitely be used to drive home the disservice it is to our youth. The parental permission for contraception is a very conservative abstinence education move that really puts into question where the government is even involved in the bed.
Scholarly
Basch, C. E. (2011). Teen Pregnancy and the Achievement Gap Among Urban Minority Youth. Journal Of School Health, 81(10), 614-618.
This study offers a variety of information on urban teenagers pregnancy and reasons why. The study concludes that comprehensive sex education would produce less pregnancy and stds. The article will help with its straight forward deductions in multiple reports:
“the studies provide compelling evidence that comprehensive sex education (ie, including education about both abstinence and contraception) resulted in delayed initiation of and frequency of sex, reduced number of partners and increased contraception use”
“concluded that more intensive, multicomponent youth development programs serving high-risk populations showed the most promising results.”
Azar, B. (2012). Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: Highlights from a Citywide Effort. American Journal Of Public Health, 102(10), 1837-1841. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.300935
This article is a perfect example of a city (Milwaukee) that decided to fully embrace the fact that its birth rates can be drastically lowered if they teach their teenagers about contraception and explain to them the realities of adolescent parenthood. It also focuses on how this initiative is based on evidence-based prevention efforts that will succeed taking out the religious context and justifying with stats.
This article expresses that Milwaukee can already be used as a template for how other cities countrywide can decrease their teen pregnancy rates.
Internet
Clemmitt, M. (2010, March 26). Teen pregnancy does comprehensive sex-education reduce pregnancies?. Retrieved from http://0-library.cqpress.com.helin.uri.edu/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2010032605&type=hitlist
This report has studies that promote both sides of the abstinence debate and makes the connection that both education programs promote good-decision making, ramifications, and explain peer pressure but they differ in what your told not to do or educated on what the decision would entail. It also includes research on a new abstinence based program that differs from ‘traditional’ programs by “It did honestly answer questions about contraception, and it did not say ‘delay until marriage.’” Perhaps because of that difference, it “did not reduce condom use.”.